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Mandatory Fields
Dan Blackshields, Bettie Higgs, Marian McCarthy, Jame Cronin
2015
January
Routledge
London
Published
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Our aim in this volume is to continue to develop a shared language of integrative learning. However, we are not seeking to create or impose a rigid taxonomy of the construct. Rather, through a series of case studies, embedded in Schön’s (1995) “kind of action research,” we wish to motivate reflective practitioner approaches to teaching, which, we hope, will help to unfold praxes of integrative learning and intentional teaching for integrative learning. Situating ourselves within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and stimulated by our own editorial dialogues (framed through the thinking of David Bohm, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Thomas Merton), we suspended attachment to our own understanding (individual and collective) of integrative learning and instead asked our diverse contributors (including lecturers across the disciplines and also tutors, students, those defined as administrative support for faculty and stakeholders outside of academia) to use “Mapping the Terrain” as a starting point for a dialogue. This required reflective engagement with their teaching and their students’ learning. We asked contributors to name the parts of their teaching narratives, uncovering their praxis by examining the data within themselves and their transactional and contextual teaching and learning environments (classroom, department, faculty, etc.).

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